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"content": "\u003cp>When Deepak Aatresh was a teenager in\u003ca href=\"https://www.techinasia.com/uber-carpool-opens-pandoras-box/\"> Bangalore, India\u003c/a>, he watched his father — a research engineer — help build an electric car. That was long before Elon Musk and Tesla came along.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was 1983. Aatresh remembers accompanying his dad on test drives, with news reporters trailing along asking how it worked. The battery-operated car dazzled Aatresh, but it also opened his eyes to how limited India was at the time. His father’s electric car never got past the testing stage because, Aatresh said, no one would fund the ambitious project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/225369408″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is something crucial about this: There was no confidence in the system in India that someone there could build something that’s useful,” said Aatresh, who is the \u003ca href=\"http://www.aditazz.com/home\">founder of Aditazz,\u003c/a> an architectural software startup in Brisbane. “My father constantly lamented that India makes these things, and eventually they just import them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seeing such disappointment weigh on his father struck a nerve with Aatresh because he wanted to follow in his footsteps as an electrical engineer. So, four years later, Aatresh left India for the United States to launch his career on his own terms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He got a master’s degree in electrical and computer engineering from Arizona State University. In 1989, Intel recruited him to Santa Clara and into the world of cutting-edge technology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was afflicted with Silicon Valley fever within about 24 hours,” said Aatresh. “Everyone rallied around technology with such enthusiasm and an attitude of wanting to win.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was during a time when waves of graduates from India’s top engineering schools were flocking to Silicon Valley, feeling that the social and political climate in their country stifled innovation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10695037\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10695037\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Modi-800x548.jpg\" alt=\"Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visits Silicon Valley this weekend.\" width=\"800\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Modi-800x548.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Modi-400x274.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Modi-1440x987.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Modi-1920x1316.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Modi-1180x809.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Modi-960x658.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visits Silicon Valley this weekend. \u003ccite>(Alex Wong/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fast forward to 2015: Aatresh is watching a technology sea change in India under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who has launched initiatives called “Digital India” to increase electronics manufacturing, expand Internet access and use apps to improve government services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Silicon Valley-India connection — and venture capital investments — are critical if Modi’s initiative is to succeed, especially since several of the CEOs of major tech companies are from India and 16 percent of Silicon Valley startups are run by Indian-Americans, said Venkatesan Ashok, \u003ca href=\"http://www.cgisf.org/\">consul general of India in San Francisco.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Silicon Valley has a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship,” said Ashok. “And I hope it is a culture that we in India can also imbibe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that’s why \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/world/asia/la-fg-california-india-tech-modi-20150913-story.html\">Modi will come to Silicon Valley this weekend \u003c/a>— the first time in 33 years a prime minister of India has visited California. Silicon Valley’s Indian immigrants have played a key role in the U.S. tech economy for decades. Now Modi believes they’re key to building up manufacturing in places like Bangalore, an Indian tech hub.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is high time that the Indian prime minister did visit and meet this exceedingly successful community, which increasingly is wanting to reconnect back with the motherland,” said Ashok.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aatresh is an example of what Ashok is talking about. His 5-year-old company, Aditazz, has been doing projects in various parts of the world, including China and Singapore. Just two months ago, Aatresh opened an office in India and he’s working on winning his first contract there — to design a state-of-the-art, energy-efficient hospital in the southern part of the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10695034\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10695034\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Aditazz-800x548.jpg\" alt=\"Aditazz startup founder Deepak Aatresh (standing) opened an office in India two months ago.\" width=\"800\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Aditazz-800x548.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Aditazz-400x274.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Aditazz-1440x986.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Aditazz-1920x1315.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Aditazz-1180x808.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Aditazz-960x658.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aditazz startup founder Deepak Aatresh (standing) opened an office in India two months ago. \u003ccite>(Beth Willon/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He believes Indian expatriates are uniquely positioned to do business in their native country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know how to navigate through the opportunities because we know the people, we know the lay of the land, we know the language, if we need to speak it,” said Aatresh. “In the end, it’s home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But because he grew up there, Aatresh knows doing business in India won’t be easy — with its difficult infrastructure, transportation, tax codes and court system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We feel it’s a bureaucratic mess,” said Aatresh. “If we ever get into any trouble, we’re going to have a lot of challenges.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vivek Wadhwa, a fellow at Stanford Law School who has studied Indian-American entrepreneurs who have returned to their native country, agrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“India is a very difficult place to work because of corruption, bureaucracy, pollution, noise, you name it,” said Wadhwa. “But somehow Indian entrepreneurs have been able to rise above it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ashok, the consul general, said innovative thinking is still not encouraged in many parts of India, as it is in Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Successful entrepreneurs have learned from failure,” said Ashok. “In many ways that’s the opposite of what we see in India, because there we have a rather traditional mindset where we’re told, ‘Don’t think outside the box, don’t get out of the system, don’t do something disruptive.’ Here disruptive technology is the keyword.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While startup failures may be accepted in Silicon Valley, that’s still not an option for entrepreneurs in India, Ashok said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”ZZApQAIhfL24dapeiEYuZiKK77d5Rhm4″]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You fail in India, you’re seen as a failure and people say, ‘This guy is useless,’ ” said Ashok. “In Silicon Valley, on the other hand, they encourage you to pick yourself up and do better, learn from your mistakes, and rise on to your success.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Modi is hoping to tap into that mindset this weekend — and court potential investors — when he’s due to visit Facebook in Menlo Park, Mountain View-based Google and Tesla in Fremont. He will also have dinners and lunches with Indian-American startup founders and \u003ca href=\"http://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-always-depended-government-money-up-front-about-it-2015-6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">community leaders\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/indias-modi-wants-to-woo-silicon-valley-but-censorship-and-privacy-fears-grow-at-home/2015/09/23/2ab28f86-6174-11e5-8475-781cc9851652_story.html\">Modi’s trip to Silicon Valley will not be without controversy. \u003c/a>A variety of groups want to use the prime minister’s visit to highlight concerns about his politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 100 professors signed an open letter protesting India’s recent crackdown on groups like Greenpeace. Others want Modi held accountable for his alleged complicity in anti-Muslim riots more than a decade ago. 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Could Aatresh’s father have given Musk a run for his money, had he been given the chance to develop his battery-operated car in India decades ago?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If he’d gotten the kind of tax breaks that Elon Musk got and the kind of support\u003ca href=\"http://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-always-depended-government-money-up-front-about-it-2015-6\"> from [the Department of Energy],\u003c/a> it would have been a great product by now,” said Aatresh. “I’m certain of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>California has the seventh-largest economy in the world, and immigrants have a long history in building that prosperity. Today one out of every three working people in California is an immigrant — a share that has grown in recent decades. Our state is shaped by these workers and entrepreneurs — 6 million people who’ve found a job in the Golden State. In our series “\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/california-immigrants-at-work\">Immigrant Shift\u003c/a>,” KQED and The California Report explore the impact they have, the challenges they face and the policies that affect them.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He got a master’s degree in electrical and computer engineering from Arizona State University. In 1989, Intel recruited him to Santa Clara and into the world of cutting-edge technology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was afflicted with Silicon Valley fever within about 24 hours,” said Aatresh. “Everyone rallied around technology with such enthusiasm and an attitude of wanting to win.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was during a time when waves of graduates from India’s top engineering schools were flocking to Silicon Valley, feeling that the social and political climate in their country stifled innovation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10695037\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10695037\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Modi-800x548.jpg\" alt=\"Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visits Silicon Valley this weekend.\" width=\"800\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Modi-800x548.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Modi-400x274.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Modi-1440x987.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Modi-1920x1316.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Modi-1180x809.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Modi-960x658.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visits Silicon Valley this weekend. \u003ccite>(Alex Wong/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fast forward to 2015: Aatresh is watching a technology sea change in India under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who has launched initiatives called “Digital India” to increase electronics manufacturing, expand Internet access and use apps to improve government services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Silicon Valley-India connection — and venture capital investments — are critical if Modi’s initiative is to succeed, especially since several of the CEOs of major tech companies are from India and 16 percent of Silicon Valley startups are run by Indian-Americans, said Venkatesan Ashok, \u003ca href=\"http://www.cgisf.org/\">consul general of India in San Francisco.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Silicon Valley has a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship,” said Ashok. “And I hope it is a culture that we in India can also imbibe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that’s why \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/world/asia/la-fg-california-india-tech-modi-20150913-story.html\">Modi will come to Silicon Valley this weekend \u003c/a>— the first time in 33 years a prime minister of India has visited California. Silicon Valley’s Indian immigrants have played a key role in the U.S. tech economy for decades. Now Modi believes they’re key to building up manufacturing in places like Bangalore, an Indian tech hub.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is high time that the Indian prime minister did visit and meet this exceedingly successful community, which increasingly is wanting to reconnect back with the motherland,” said Ashok.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aatresh is an example of what Ashok is talking about. His 5-year-old company, Aditazz, has been doing projects in various parts of the world, including China and Singapore. Just two months ago, Aatresh opened an office in India and he’s working on winning his first contract there — to design a state-of-the-art, energy-efficient hospital in the southern part of the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10695034\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10695034\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Aditazz-800x548.jpg\" alt=\"Aditazz startup founder Deepak Aatresh (standing) opened an office in India two months ago.\" width=\"800\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Aditazz-800x548.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Aditazz-400x274.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Aditazz-1440x986.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Aditazz-1920x1315.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Aditazz-1180x808.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Aditazz-960x658.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aditazz startup founder Deepak Aatresh (standing) opened an office in India two months ago. \u003ccite>(Beth Willon/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He believes Indian expatriates are uniquely positioned to do business in their native country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know how to navigate through the opportunities because we know the people, we know the lay of the land, we know the language, if we need to speak it,” said Aatresh. “In the end, it’s home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But because he grew up there, Aatresh knows doing business in India won’t be easy — with its difficult infrastructure, transportation, tax codes and court system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We feel it’s a bureaucratic mess,” said Aatresh. “If we ever get into any trouble, we’re going to have a lot of challenges.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vivek Wadhwa, a fellow at Stanford Law School who has studied Indian-American entrepreneurs who have returned to their native country, agrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“India is a very difficult place to work because of corruption, bureaucracy, pollution, noise, you name it,” said Wadhwa. “But somehow Indian entrepreneurs have been able to rise above it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ashok, the consul general, said innovative thinking is still not encouraged in many parts of India, as it is in Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Successful entrepreneurs have learned from failure,” said Ashok. “In many ways that’s the opposite of what we see in India, because there we have a rather traditional mindset where we’re told, ‘Don’t think outside the box, don’t get out of the system, don’t do something disruptive.’ Here disruptive technology is the keyword.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While startup failures may be accepted in Silicon Valley, that’s still not an option for entrepreneurs in India, Ashok said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You fail in India, you’re seen as a failure and people say, ‘This guy is useless,’ ” said Ashok. “In Silicon Valley, on the other hand, they encourage you to pick yourself up and do better, learn from your mistakes, and rise on to your success.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Modi is hoping to tap into that mindset this weekend — and court potential investors — when he’s due to visit Facebook in Menlo Park, Mountain View-based Google and Tesla in Fremont. He will also have dinners and lunches with Indian-American startup founders and \u003ca href=\"http://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-always-depended-government-money-up-front-about-it-2015-6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">community leaders\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/indias-modi-wants-to-woo-silicon-valley-but-censorship-and-privacy-fears-grow-at-home/2015/09/23/2ab28f86-6174-11e5-8475-781cc9851652_story.html\">Modi’s trip to Silicon Valley will not be without controversy. \u003c/a>A variety of groups want to use the prime minister’s visit to highlight concerns about his politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 100 professors signed an open letter protesting India’s recent crackdown on groups like Greenpeace. Others want Modi held accountable for his alleged complicity in anti-Muslim riots more than a decade ago. 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"content": "\u003cp>This is not a story about whether porn is good or bad. This is not a story about whether porn addiction \u003cem>should\u003c/em> be a clinical diagnosis. This is a story about Liam (and we’re not using his real name because of the sensitive nature of the topic).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Liam, porn became a compulsive, damaging habit around the time that high-speed Internet came around -- which is to say, his entire adult life, starting when he was 20. He’s 38 now, and it’s been a little over a year since he decided to quit. We asked him to go back in time for us and describe what his habit was like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout alignright\">\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http://u.s.kqed.net/2015/09/14/LITDApodcastlogo.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/love-in-the-digital-age/id1037051180?mt=2\">Subscribe in iTunes\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Don't miss an episode of 'Love in the Digital Age'\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Bubble\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's like a bubble,\" he recalls. \"It's like an exciting, adrenaline-filled state of mind where you're not thinking about, 'OK, I have these bills due,' or 'I have to go meet my boss tomorrow and I'm nervous,' or 'She wants to talk about the relationship and I don't want to!' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At times, Liam would stay in the bubble for five, 10 hours at a time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The variety of porn today is mind-boggling and unprecedented. 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Sex, after all, is universal in a way few things are, other than food and sleep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this TED Talk, one of Liam's favorite public discussions about porn, retired science teacher Gary Wilson notes many researchers say they can't find a control group of men who have not been exposed to some pornography at some point in their lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSF82AwSDiU]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liam, who works in construction and lives in Los Angeles, is no awkward loner using porn as a stand-in for human contact. He's the son of a therapist, raised in a \"liberal\" home in Santa Cruz. He's articulate and charming, and a veteran of several relationships, one of which almost led to marriage. But from early on, those girlfriends were competing with porn for primacy in Liam's mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Excitement and shame mixed together makes [porn] this erotic thing, whereas just being with someone’s kinda boring,\" Liam says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's not to say Liam wasn't bothered by what he called his emotional numbness. \"It’s almost like when I’m looking at pornography, I’m burning off the little receptors that are my feelings and enable me to care for somebody. You know, they get fried.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Of course, I had these fantasies of ... oh, I want to do X, Y and Z once I saw that in a pornographic movie. But once I would find someone who was willing to do whatever I wanted, I’d be bored, like, right away.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Over the years, friends suggested to Liam he consider getting help, but he brushed them off. 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Despite a lot of laughter and hooting when the question was read aloud, one man rose and invited whomever had written the note to reach out after the meeting. That man became Liam's sponsor in \u003ca href=\"https://saa-recovery.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sex Addicts Anonymous\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignleft\">Hear from one of the foremost thinkers on the subject of porn addiction: \u003cstrong>Alexandra Katehakis\u003c/strong>, founder and clinical director of the Center for Healthy Sex in Los Angeles:\u003cbr>\n[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/221349566\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Every night now, Liam reports by phone. Has he exercised that day? Has he done something fun like go to a movie? Or something shameful? Is he resentful about anything? 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"content": "\u003cp>Few things are more painful than watching people we love harm themselves. Most parents go through some iteration of this experience when their children become teenagers, but some families suffer more than others. One mom in Berkeley, Donna, found herself caught in a high-stakes game of cat-and-mouse with her daughter, Cindy, starting in middle school. (To protect the family, we’ve changed the names.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When did the trouble start? 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And then I thought to myself: Oh gosh, it’s, you know, this is happening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘My first thought was: Why is there a male torso on my child’s phone? And then I thought to myself: Oh gosh, it’s, you know, this is happening.’\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>That’s just the sexting. “I would see sometimes text conversations,” Donna says, “between her and someone I didn’t know, and I assume, actually, that she didn’t know. If I could ever really see the whole gist of a conversation, I would gather that the person on the other side was a boy or man, who eventually would lead the discussion to something sexual, and then it seemed like she would kind of stop.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What Donna Ultimately Realized Was Happening\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I really wanted attention,” Cindy says. At that time, she adds, “I didn’t really care how people thought of me. Like, I’m going to text this guy a million times until he stops replying, and then I’ll find the next one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cindy was an anxious kid, and a year into middle school, she found herself socially excluded by a group she calls the Abercrombie Girls, in reference to their focus on fashion. Cindy describes it as a “Mean Girls” situation. “I was always at the edge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8_POt2KlfQ]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Cindy sought out boys, and men, consciously aware they were interested in sex, regardless of what she told her mom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s so easy, you know?” Cindy says. “Snap the picture and send it. It takes nothing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cindy is hardly an anomaly. Sexting is a common practice among teenagers, and grownups everywhere are struggling to catch up. Some law enforcement agencies treat sexting an under-age girl as a criminal offense, but if the sexter is a teenage boy, that can come off as \u003ca href=\"http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p031fztz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">heavy-handed\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donna warned her daughters about the fact that photos are forever on the Internet, but Cindy was favoring the bad information she got from girlfriends, who told her guys were unlikely to forward her photos if she had sexual photos of them: a kind of mutually assured destruction pact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That turned out to be a naive assumption. But even after Cindy knew better, even after she had been publicly embarrassed, she kept sexting. Even after one of the older guys she was chatting with threatened to come find her, she kept looking for new, strange friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Parental Surveillance\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donna never really stalked her daughter. She openly checked Cindy’s phone once a week in middle school. But Cindy was much more careful about what she shared with her mom, regularly deleting incriminating evidence that could get her grounded or, at the very least, forced to endure a lecture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cindy wasn’t a big fan of social media, but Donna checked the feeds of her daughter’s Facebook friends nonetheless, looking for clues about her daughter’s life that Cindy wasn’t choosing to share with her. Donna also installed \u003ca href=\"http://www1.k9webprotection.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">K9 Web Protection\u003c/a>, filtering software that blocks sites and then emits a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyCXUuUKLxE&feature=youtu.be&t=6m23s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">loud dog bark\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cutting was the first clue that Cindy’s anxiety and depression were overwhelming her. Cindy fell in with a couple of girls at school who were also suffering from depression. They were also cutting themselves, and cutting themselves competitively with each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cindy described her first scars as evidence of an encounter with a cat. That excuse worked only once, and her tolerance grew over time, so she needed to cut more often “to get the same relief.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They look like what they are: razor cuts,” says Donna. “So they’re very thin, and precise — but they can get a little deep. I know, it’s horrible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon after the cutting began, Donna lined up a therapist, but Cindy didn’t take to the woman. She was formal, the kind of therapist who likes to review her notes at the end of a session — with a 13-year-old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It wasn’t more damaging,” Cindy says now, “but it just wasn’t helpful — and that was a critical time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All this was before high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Listen to more of Cindy’s reflections on middle school:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/223991953”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Berkeley High School\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unfortunately, high school didn’t go as well as we had hoped for her,” Donna says. “She started out strong her freshman year, but by her sophomore year, she had gotten again with a group that was kind of fringe — not exactly motivated in school, and they were smoking a lot of pot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s so easy to find,” Cindy says. “Everyone had this unlimited supply. I almost always got it for free in the beginning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By sophomore year, Cindy was smoking, by her own estimate, eight or nine “blunts” a day — and then drinking on top of that. There was also a one-month flirtation with cocaine, but that wasn’t her main drug.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite all this, Cindy was still getting A’s and B’s in school. She was taking care of business. “I was the only kid who went to class of the friends that I was with, ’cause I knew that If I started getting bad grades, my parents would notice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are kids who are very combative with their parents,” Donna says. “They’re ‘I hate you, Mom,’ and they’re fighting. We were never like that. She would tug at my heartstrings, versus push me away. We tried to rein her in. ‘You can’t go to this party, and you can’t hang out with so-and-so.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Donna found it hard to lay down the law for any length of time. “You become a jailer, which is not fun,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”Kfo8j15BfaTtV778Jwzc55k9CalAykEQ”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why didn’t Donna simply take away Cindy’s phone or Internet access? Cindy answers it best. “She really thought that if she punished me, I’d hurt myself.” Also, the phone was a valuable surveillance device for Donna, a way to keep tabs — however limited — on her daughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, Donna recalls following Cindy via GPS down Telegraph Avenue one Halloween night after dropping her off at a party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was probably trying to score something,” Donna recalls. “I kept texting, ‘Where are you?’ and she kept telling me, ‘Oh, at this other party,’ and I could see the little dot moving around. I said, ‘You know, I’m just coming to get you.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Things started to go downhill,” Donna continues. “It just went downhill really fast. I realized, again from looking at her phone, that she was financing her pot use by selling it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At this point, Donna had tried talk therapy, anti-depressants, dialectical behavior therapy — “a common form of therapy used for kids who cut” — which involved a year of classes for Cindy and Donna in Oakland at \u003ca href=\"http://www.clearwaterclinic.com/dialectical-behavior-therapy/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Clearwater Clinic\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, nothing they could do in Berkeley seemed to be working. “I feel like, at a certain point, I didn’t know who she was,” Donna says. “Someone who’s using drugs and abusing alcohol, there’s a lot they have to hide and a lot of manipulation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cindy agreed to go to North Carolina for 2½ months to attend what’s called a wilderness therapy program. There, Cindy was separated from everything: her friends, her drugs, her makeup and, of course, her iPhone. Such a dramatic intervention doesn’t always work. Some kids are literally dragged to wilderness school, and the therapy doesn’t take. But Cindy says she loved her experience at \u003ca href=\"http://trailscarolina.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Trails \u003c/a>in North Carolina, and would even do it again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Coming Clean\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of her therapy, Cindy had to write letters home cataloging everything she’d done in the previous years. The letters were shocking to Donna. “I probably shouldn’t have trusted her as much as I did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donna was genuinely surprised at the level of Cindy’s drinking, despite a couple instances in which she vomited in public, and one time when she blacked out in a public park. A friend carried her to his home and called Donna from there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cindy’s stint at Trails was followed by a therapeutic boarding school, \u003ca href=\"http://www.springridgeacademy.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Spring Ridge Academy\u003c/a>, in Arizona, before she finished high school in the East Bay. She’s now a freshman at an East Coast university.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mother and daughter are on good terms these days. “I will never not regret the pain that I caused my mother,” Cindy says. “I always knew that she loved me. 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Cindy describes it as a “Mean Girls” situation. “I was always at the edge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/W8_POt2KlfQ'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/W8_POt2KlfQ'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Cindy sought out boys, and men, consciously aware they were interested in sex, regardless of what she told her mom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s so easy, you know?” Cindy says. “Snap the picture and send it. It takes nothing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cindy is hardly an anomaly. Sexting is a common practice among teenagers, and grownups everywhere are struggling to catch up. Some law enforcement agencies treat sexting an under-age girl as a criminal offense, but if the sexter is a teenage boy, that can come off as \u003ca href=\"http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p031fztz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">heavy-handed\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donna warned her daughters about the fact that photos are forever on the Internet, but Cindy was favoring the bad information she got from girlfriends, who told her guys were unlikely to forward her photos if she had sexual photos of them: a kind of mutually assured destruction pact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That turned out to be a naive assumption. But even after Cindy knew better, even after she had been publicly embarrassed, she kept sexting. Even after one of the older guys she was chatting with threatened to come find her, she kept looking for new, strange friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Parental Surveillance\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donna never really stalked her daughter. She openly checked Cindy’s phone once a week in middle school. But Cindy was much more careful about what she shared with her mom, regularly deleting incriminating evidence that could get her grounded or, at the very least, forced to endure a lecture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cindy wasn’t a big fan of social media, but Donna checked the feeds of her daughter’s Facebook friends nonetheless, looking for clues about her daughter’s life that Cindy wasn’t choosing to share with her. Donna also installed \u003ca href=\"http://www1.k9webprotection.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">K9 Web Protection\u003c/a>, filtering software that blocks sites and then emits a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyCXUuUKLxE&feature=youtu.be&t=6m23s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">loud dog bark\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cutting was the first clue that Cindy’s anxiety and depression were overwhelming her. Cindy fell in with a couple of girls at school who were also suffering from depression. They were also cutting themselves, and cutting themselves competitively with each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cindy described her first scars as evidence of an encounter with a cat. That excuse worked only once, and her tolerance grew over time, so she needed to cut more often “to get the same relief.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They look like what they are: razor cuts,” says Donna. “So they’re very thin, and precise — but they can get a little deep. I know, it’s horrible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon after the cutting began, Donna lined up a therapist, but Cindy didn’t take to the woman. She was formal, the kind of therapist who likes to review her notes at the end of a session — with a 13-year-old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It wasn’t more damaging,” Cindy says now, “but it just wasn’t helpful — and that was a critical time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All this was before high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Listen to more of Cindy’s reflections on middle school:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='undefined' height='undefined'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/223991953”&visual=true&undefined'\n title='”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/223991953”'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Berkeley High School\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unfortunately, high school didn’t go as well as we had hoped for her,” Donna says. “She started out strong her freshman year, but by her sophomore year, she had gotten again with a group that was kind of fringe — not exactly motivated in school, and they were smoking a lot of pot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s so easy to find,” Cindy says. “Everyone had this unlimited supply. I almost always got it for free in the beginning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By sophomore year, Cindy was smoking, by her own estimate, eight or nine “blunts” a day — and then drinking on top of that. There was also a one-month flirtation with cocaine, but that wasn’t her main drug.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite all this, Cindy was still getting A’s and B’s in school. She was taking care of business. “I was the only kid who went to class of the friends that I was with, ’cause I knew that If I started getting bad grades, my parents would notice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are kids who are very combative with their parents,” Donna says. “They’re ‘I hate you, Mom,’ and they’re fighting. We were never like that. She would tug at my heartstrings, versus push me away. We tried to rein her in. ‘You can’t go to this party, and you can’t hang out with so-and-so.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Donna found it hard to lay down the law for any length of time. “You become a jailer, which is not fun,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why didn’t Donna simply take away Cindy’s phone or Internet access? Cindy answers it best. “She really thought that if she punished me, I’d hurt myself.” Also, the phone was a valuable surveillance device for Donna, a way to keep tabs — however limited — on her daughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, Donna recalls following Cindy via GPS down Telegraph Avenue one Halloween night after dropping her off at a party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was probably trying to score something,” Donna recalls. “I kept texting, ‘Where are you?’ and she kept telling me, ‘Oh, at this other party,’ and I could see the little dot moving around. I said, ‘You know, I’m just coming to get you.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Things started to go downhill,” Donna continues. “It just went downhill really fast. I realized, again from looking at her phone, that she was financing her pot use by selling it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At this point, Donna had tried talk therapy, anti-depressants, dialectical behavior therapy — “a common form of therapy used for kids who cut” — which involved a year of classes for Cindy and Donna in Oakland at \u003ca href=\"http://www.clearwaterclinic.com/dialectical-behavior-therapy/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Clearwater Clinic\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, nothing they could do in Berkeley seemed to be working. “I feel like, at a certain point, I didn’t know who she was,” Donna says. “Someone who’s using drugs and abusing alcohol, there’s a lot they have to hide and a lot of manipulation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cindy agreed to go to North Carolina for 2½ months to attend what’s called a wilderness therapy program. There, Cindy was separated from everything: her friends, her drugs, her makeup and, of course, her iPhone. 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She studied Chinese and literature in college and only started diving into computer languages after graduating. Eventually, she learned about \u003ca href=\"https://www.womenwhocode.com\">Women Who Code\u003c/a>, a nonprofit organization that offers coding classes and serves as a forum for like-minded women to share tips and network.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The excitement that I got from these groups, the positivity, really kept me going,” Madden-Wood said. “It was what put me over the threshold to become a software engineer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But getting started is apparently easier than staying with a career in tech. According to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/prod/2013pubs/acs-24.pdf\">2013 \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/prod/2013pubs/acs-24.pdf\">U.S. Census Bureau analysis\u003c/a>, “Among science and engineering graduates, men are employed in a STEM occupation at twice the rate of women: 31 percent compared with 15 percent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conversations about gender imbalance and a lack of advancement for women in Silicon Valley became a focal point in March, when former Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers employee Ellen Pao \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/24/final-arguments-in-ellen-pao-gender-discrimination-trial\">lost a gender discrimination lawsuit\u003c/a> against the venture-capital firm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sometimes the challenges are subtle, Madden-Wood said. “Women are interrupted more than men. I’ve felt that and nobody notices it,” she said. “I’ve felt like I had to work much harder to get noticed for my work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While a lot has been said about why women drop out of tech — from hostile work environments to a lack of advancement opportunities — Colner said there are concrete ways to help women stay in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Stitch Fix, for example, Colner said there’s a clear path for promotion. “They’ve actually thought about a timeline for different milestones that I should hit, guiding me along the process,” she said. “I wish more companies would do that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Colner is also active as a recruiter for her employer, knowing that women are more likely to join a company that already employs other female engineers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, not too infrequently, when she mentions that she’s a software engineer, there’s a double take. “It’s always a positive reaction,” Colner said. “But there is that moment of surprise.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem style=\"line-height: 1.5\">See more on women in tech on \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/tv/programs/newsroom/watch/archive/288217\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KQED NEWSROOM\u003c/a>, a weekly news magazine program. 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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]T[/dropcap]here are some days when, over a few unforgettable hours, the world seems to shift on its axis. They often involve flames, explosions and splintering steel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other days mark a similar tectonic shift, if only symbolically. One happened 20 years ago on the morning of Aug. 9, 1995, when the Age of Aquarius and the dot-com boom briefly collided, signaling a transition from one era to the next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first event occurred just before dawn when guitarist Jerry Garcia, founder of the Grateful Dead and one of the iconic symbols of a generation shaped by music, love, and community, \u003ca href=\"http://6thfloor.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/09/the-day-jerry-garcia-died/?_r=0\">was found dead\u003c/a> at Serenity Knolls, a rehab facility in Marin County, just north of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He had checked into the site a few days earlier to clean up for an upcoming fall tour. A long-term drug problem, involving mostly heroin and cocaine, had turned Garcia’s diabetic and overweight body into a death trap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[jerrygarcia]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was sometimes so incapacitated he couldn’t function,” writes Grateful Dead drummer Bill Kreutzmann in his book, \"Deal: My Three Decades of Drumming, Dreams, and Drugs with the Grateful Dead.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While on stage, Garcia forgot lyrics, missed notes and could often seem listless and disoriented. The gray-bearded guru had significant health problems, made worse by cigarette smoking and the stress of the Dead’s tour schedule. In 1986, he nearly died when he slipped into a diabetic coma, but the Grim Reaper wasn’t ready just then. On Aug. 9, 1995, it was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcia was found unresponsive in bed just after 4 a.m. A staff nurse and local paramedics frantically administered CPR, but it was too late: Jerry Garcia, who had just turned 53, was dead of a heart attack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Garcia’s body was driven down a winding wooded road to the local coroner, a wildly different scene was occurring 3,000 miles to the east, at Manhattan’s Nasdaq stock market. It was 9:30 a.m. and Netscape Communications was about to go public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WRo3j5XS-A\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dawn of a New Era\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many investors had high hopes for \u003ca href=\"http://www.marketwatch.com/story/netscape-ipo-ignited-the-boom-taught-some-hard-lessons-20058518550\">Netscape\u003c/a>, which, just eight months earlier, had released the first version of its groundbreaking Web browser, helping to simplify and transform the online experience. The stock was to be offered at $14 per share, but with so much interest they made a high-stakes gamble and doubled the initial price to $28 per share.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nothing prepared investors for what happened next. Demand for the Netscape shares was so intense that for almost two hours after the opening bell, trading in Netscape shares couldn't open, as the bids were overwhelming the asks. When it finally opened, the share price shot up. 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The firm was only 16 months old and had yet to make a profit, but none of that seemed to matter on the day the Netscape bottle rocket lit up the sky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>he Netscape IPO was to tech entrepreneurs what the Beatles appearance on the Ed Sullivan show was to pop music fans -- the astonishing moment when a mental door flew open and a new world awaited, in glorious Technicolor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A decade later, \u003ca href=\"http://archive.fortune.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2005/07/25/8266639/index.htm\">Adam Lashinsky spelled out \u003c/a>what Netscape’s IPO meant in Fortune:\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“More than any other company, it set the technological, social, and financial tone of the Internet age. Its founders, Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark -- a baby-faced 24-year-old programmer from the Midwest and a restless middle-aged tech pioneer who badly wanted to strike gold again -- inspired a generation of entrepreneurs to try to become tech millionaires.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A month after Netscape went public, eBay was founded. The following spring, Stanford students Larry Page and Sergey Brin began developing a Web-based “crawling” technology called BackRub, laying the foundation for the creation of Google.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The success of the IPO created the term “Netscape Moment” -- a giddy point that marks the starting gun of a new industry and age. Many business historians say the dot-com boom began that day. Soon, everyone was pestering their broker for tips on new companies. Day trading of stocks via online brokers such as Ameritrade or Etrade was now considered a career.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Companies like \u003ca href=\"http://www.redhat.com/en/about/company\">Red Hat Software\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.akamai.com/us/en/about/company-history.jsp\">Akamai Technologies\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.theglobe.com/\">theGlobe.com\u003c/a> would surpass even Netscape’s heights, seeing their shares rise more than 400 percent in their first day of trading -- an excitement that former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan famously called “irrational exuberance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Was it? Business was radically and quickly reshaped worldwide by inexpensive communications based on a browser-based Internet. It was the biggest era of U.S. wealth creation in generations. Within five years, the tech-heavy Nasdaq soared from 1,000 companies to more than 5,100.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Spontaneous Wake\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in San Francisco, the early glimmers of the Internet gold rush meant little to mourning Grateful Dead fans, who had lost an irreplaceable musical god. A spontaneous citywide wake developed. Mayor Frank Jordan ordered city flags to fly at half-staff\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hundreds gathered in Haight-Ashbury, the low-rent neighborhood that formed a spiritual base for 1960s counterculture. Some sat on the stoop of 710 Ashbury, the ornate house where the Grateful Dead briefly lived, to console, cry, talk it out and get high. Thousands of mourners gathered in Golden Gate Park, listening to tapes of the Dead and creating a makeshift shrine to Jerry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[jerrygarciamourners]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That night, Dead guitarist Bob Weir went ahead with a scheduled solo show in Hampton Beach, N.H. “If our dear, departed friend proved anything to us,” Weir told the crowd, “he proved that great music can make sad times better.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Deadheads high and low knew better -- an age had passed. Sen. Patrick Leahy said the news of Garcia’s death felt “like I had been kicked in the stomach.” A month earlier, at the band’s final gig with Garcia in Chicago, they ended the show with the song “Box of Rain” and its prescient lyrics: “Such a long long time to be gone/and a short time to be there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch2>\"So Many Roads\" From Garcia's Final Concert\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"400\" height=\"300\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/6sFyRQPraJ8\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>For Garcia and many Deadheads, that short time was now over. The group had survived the death of other active members -- founding member Ron \"Pigpen\" McKernan succumbed to an internal hemorrhage in 1973, and keyboardist Brent Mydland died from a drug overdose in 1990 -- but the loss of their colorful leader, affectionately known as Captain Trips, was insurmountable. Within four months of Garcia’s passing, the band that had meant so much to so many officially called it quits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the closing bell of the stock market, Netscape shareholders were also in a state of shock, although a delightful one. Many were now staggeringly wealthy. Jim Clark’s 20 percent share was suddenly worth $663 million. Champagne bottles were popped open; toasts were made.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heady days were still ahead, but nothing compared with the surreal euphoria of that first day. Netscape’s stock peaked in late 1995 at $171 share, before its market share began to slip. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Listen to the story:\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nhttp://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/science/2015/08/20150803ScienceMedicaldeviceshacking.mp3\u003cbr>\nYou have passwords for your smart phone and laptop, but what about your pacemaker or insulin pump?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last Friday, the federal \u003ca href=\"http://www.fda.gov/MedicalDevices/Safety/AlertsandNotices/ucm456815.htm\">Food and Drug Administration recommended\u003c/a> that all hospitals in California and across the country stop using a medical device that it says is vulnerable to cyber attacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Someone will find a reason to change a counter on an insulin pump or take over a defibrillator just because they can.'\u003ccite>Jamie Court,\u003cbr>\nConsumer Watchdog president\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The device is an infusion pump that delivers medications or nutrients to patients. A hacker who accessed it could change the drug dosage to give a patient not enough -- or a lethal amount.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California security expert Billy Rios says he identified the problem \u003ca href=\"http://xs-sniper.com/blog/\" target=\"_blank\">more than a year ago\u003c/a> and notified the FDA and the Department of Homeland Security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Some of these pumps are really dangerous,\" says Rios, who founded digital security company Laconicly. \"If we ever gain access to a hospital network and we know of a vulnerability affecting a particular device, what that really means is we can go from one location and touch one hundred different devices all at once.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These pumps are not the only medical devices vulnerable to hacking. More than 10 million Americans rely on devices like pacemakers and defibrillators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/MmQZIRJPfLM\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: medium\">(Cyber security expert Billy Rios remotely hacks into Hospira’s Symbiq infusion pump, which the FDA has encouraged all medical centers to stop using .)\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you are a fan of the Showtime television series \u003ca href=\"https://vimeo.com/63176830\">Homeland\u003c/a>, you may remember an episode where assassins killed the vice president by hacking into his pacemaker and disabling it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This episode wasn’t just Hollywood making up stuff. Former Vice President Dick Cheney was so \u003ca href=\"http://abcnews.go.com/US/vice-president-dick-cheney-feared-pacemaker-hacking/story?id=20621434\">afraid of a cyber attack on his own pacemaker\u003c/a> that he had the wireless feature on it disabled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As technology has become more connected, so have medical devices. While some, like pacemakers, can only send information, others, can send and receive data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that leaves some patients vulnerable to a hacker trying to harm them or use their device as a portal to access medical data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"All the tools that are required to do software debugging, to get software off of chips and basically to do hardware hacking,\" Rios says, \"it’s become available to just any person.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'My biggest fear is that somebody will take out a large number of devices across an institution.'\u003ccite>Kevin McDonald,\u003cbr>\nClinical Information Security Director\u003cbr>\nMayo Clinic\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>As a benign or “white hat” hacker, Rios does research in his Half Moon Bay garage to help the Department of Homeland Security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He proved he could remotely administer a lethal dose of drugs through a patient’s insulin pump. He has also hacked pre-programmed passwords from hundreds of devices. He and his colleague were able to figure out the passwords after acquiring embedded software and technical manuals from several vendors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We knew what those 300 passwords were,\" Rios says. \"We could go to any device we wanted to and we had a set of usernames and passwords that would work against all these devices, and so that was pretty alarming.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Food and Drug Administration, which regulates the sale of medical devices, has been issuing formal guidelines on the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suzanne Schwartz is the FDA’s Director of Emergency Preparedness. Last year, she helped publish \u003ca href=\"http://www.fda.gov/ucm/groups/fdagov-public/@fdagov-meddev-gen/documents/document/ucm356190.pdf\">new recommendations\u003c/a> for how medical device makers should take cyber-security attacks into account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_19957\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2015/07/Implantable-medical-devices_graphic_WHITE.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-19957\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2015/07/Implantable-medical-devices_graphic_WHITE-800x567.jpg\" alt=\"Many there are many implantable medical devices on the market that have vulnerabilities, in fact, the Food and Drug Administration has received approximately 56,000 reports of adverse events associated with the use of infusion pumps, including numerous injuries and deaths. \" width=\"800\" height=\"567\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2015/07/Implantable-medical-devices_graphic_WHITE-800x567.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2015/07/Implantable-medical-devices_graphic_WHITE-400x283.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2015/07/Implantable-medical-devices_graphic_WHITE-1180x836.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2015/07/Implantable-medical-devices_graphic_WHITE-960x680.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2015/07/Implantable-medical-devices_graphic_WHITE.jpg 1493w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">There are many implantable medical devices on the market that have vulnerabilities, in fact, the Food and Drug Administration has received approximately 56,000 reports of adverse events associated with the use of infusion pumps, including numerous injuries and deaths. \u003ccite>(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"That is something, yes, that we continuously monitor and it’s something important that we want to hear about,\" Schwartz says, \"whether it’s directly from the healthcare organizations or from the medical device manufacturers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Consumer Watchdog president Jamie Court says the FDA’s guidelines for medical devices fall short. He says what's needed is a law -- not recommendations -- requiring medical manufacturers and hospitals to upgrade systems to prevent cyber attacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The reality is if they don’t someone is going to die,\" Court says. \"Because it’s not safe. Someone will find a reason to change a counter on an insulin pump or take over a defibrillator just because they can.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without legally binding rules, medical device security is left in the hands of hospitals and device makers. And they are required to report device malfunctions only if patients are injured or they die.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Medtronic, the nation's largest medical device manufacturer, has not reported any incidents so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company declined to be interviewed and sent KQED a statement saying it aims to manufacture products that are as safe and secure as possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_19938\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2015/07/Kevin-McDonald_Mayo-Clinic_photo.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-19938\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2015/07/Kevin-McDonald_Mayo-Clinic_photo-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Clinical Information Security Director Kevin McDonald (left) at Mayo Clinic in Minnesota leads a team checking medical devices for software vulnerabilities that could cause a device to be infected with malware or exploited by hackers.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2015/07/Kevin-McDonald_Mayo-Clinic_photo-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2015/07/Kevin-McDonald_Mayo-Clinic_photo-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2015/07/Kevin-McDonald_Mayo-Clinic_photo-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2015/07/Kevin-McDonald_Mayo-Clinic_photo-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2015/07/Kevin-McDonald_Mayo-Clinic_photo-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Clinical Information Security Director Kevin McDonald (left) at Mayo Clinic in Minnesota leads a team checking medical devices for software vulnerabilities that could cause a device to be infected with malware or exploited by hackers. \u003ccite>(Mayo Clinic)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But Mayo Clinic cyber security expert Kevin McDonald says, while they haven't been catastrophic, some incidents have already occurred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Back in 2010,\" he says, \"there was a heart catheterization lab out on the East Coast, that, because of some malware viruses, was put out of business for about three days. 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More than 10 million Americans rely on devices like pacemakers and defibrillators.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/MmQZIRJPfLM'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/MmQZIRJPfLM'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: medium\">(Cyber security expert Billy Rios remotely hacks into Hospira’s Symbiq infusion pump, which the FDA has encouraged all medical centers to stop using .)\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you are a fan of the Showtime television series \u003ca href=\"https://vimeo.com/63176830\">Homeland\u003c/a>, you may remember an episode where assassins killed the vice president by hacking into his pacemaker and disabling it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This episode wasn’t just Hollywood making up stuff. 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